New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-20
TIA VTHORNE AND 1HE VAN
MS MISTAKEN OPINlONs-HIS PIERCE DEDi
CATION.
From The Boston Pos.

From The Boston Ios''
It was In 1862 that Nathaniel sScbcs aour Old
Iiomc. TO Franklin Pierce. "as slight and
college frondship, prolonged through xsars and
many now living will recall INC anJ,sah, and the
tIoycrsy aroused by this act OF t.en sa3 md cla.
R4rs ~ induce the author TO give ILLS BOOK 70 .no
world under moro popular ausp'f Ss reasons 90 plainly
fused and probably nsSt 10 ONE near and dear to aim
syritten few days after the famous dedlcauoh wsn
penned Until the present tune Sa 'n nsw When for he
Srst time given greater publicity his views VIII eA'
curious Interest," - ,,- IN go
nr.n -: do not think that the 1edicaion 70
Ccnsrai Pierce can have the momenous POLITICAL POLITICAL
Sson long snoe as proper memorial Of life
long intimacy and especially suitable In the case
Of this book which could not have been IN existence
without him. l expressly say that dedicate the book
10 the friend and decline any present cooquy WIN .n
statesman, to whom address mercy rev ~naIeraHa
devotion to the Unon--which am GLAD 10 nave enc enc
opportunity Of saying. at this moment when al i me-
u,injstratlop and abolition papers are Gaining Nun
traitor trator Why, he is the only 10y al man IN
the country North South. fybody else has on.
- ONE uav ar mother bot Pierce retains 1t in all the
emncity with which he Inherited II from BIS iathcr
tso analogy II any is neoded,. of his whole pubic
lfe and Il look generously at nun you bonsS one
81 ,,ted ,copcI for him 20 admit any ideas that were
not emit rtalned by the fathers OF the CONSTITUTION aa
the Republic. Knowing that no u coo.'sS -,
them. say so and that is all say OF his political
csaracier The dedication wn'tcn before the
New.Hampsh,re convention aud when had not seen
him Tor months but speak Of his fah with me SANE am.
certainty az V had inst come from talk WITH
him Though dder from him in many respects, . !
1Iere IS certain stcadfastness and INTEGRITY with re-
gard 10 mans own nature tween IL m su ~, more
sacred and valuable than tho faculty Of adapting
ones .elt - ideas howevc, true they NAV 'ifn
o's The he dedication can hurt nobody but my book and
mysef know that 1t viii do that but ava son i
10 take the consequences rather thsn 20 oach 'ioh
what deliberately jndg. IT right 20 do As for pos
terty it will have formed truer opinion Of General
pierce than you DO; and yet shall suppose 'nat
Won have breadth and insight enough thowever dis
iurfed by tho potent elixir Of political opin9ns1 10
You DO not in the least shake by telling mo
that shall be supposed to dsappIove Of the war Tor
always thought that it should have been avoided ed
although since it has broken out have longed Tor
military success "a much as any man or woman OF
thinks that the war will oniy effect by horrible con-
vrsion the sclf-same end that might and would have
Nor am at all certain that it viii effect that end
Even these recent have not as indubaDle
rebeIs that tbrr best hope lies in the honor Of tho
peace Democrats Of the North, whom they have mere
,e eaI think that tho old Union might be restored
and slavery prolonged for another hundred years with
buwar while tho people Of the I'd N nsysr Do
that they had she'd their blood in vain and would be-
to W Ton in aayan as Se
ter OF the nook in our garnet which Mary contrivet
as nn Se s"t thing rsr possible as far as
would DO to effect o separation OF tho Union gvin;
ino ' aording as much southern soil as we car hop.
TO digest Into Freedom IN another century soc ho.
every other imaginable settlement except through tn
medium OF the peace Democrats: who las have ius
=, View w0 Of such result You cannot possibly con
e oons hrGSss pesiae r.. q So 1S r n
Tor tho negro question, and how eagerly IL %oui s
Il victory Free soil Was never in great DANCE
as now. II the southern statesmen manage ,he !,
,sa; wSn give Mere hs@ y than they
asked. DO you suppose that tho pendulum Is no
az have Written the foregoing not in controversial
aId beg you win not 50 s0nsae Tr ill., but tst Do
admire the vaior and generous psrtinseityy win
Write lie q csy and the nG so Of r!s5Ss
trusted to r my own waH instinct to GUIDE not me writ n
read to others. for this is the first time tina
have w y m SSTn and i ps maSs ss ey
themselves rather differently on another attempt
s%S sous long yudy aS
as should choose to put foth At present ana an
dead old Union wsics leads me to say kind thin
or two about IT, .hSnsh had as lief see my grand
"Mr. Whiting himself sent me his pamphlet !
has no Ssa ne q ny po ID not care s
Ss hs only uses them sect%aI,y but % s,;s g.
my heart, and should thnk that you would do the SAM
IL don't know how Euery Charming gets his u
erary intelligence. supposed that this affair Of ID
dedication was an entire secret between me and tn
publisher Even Sophia did not know it. and hav
never whispered 1t 10 General Pler6 nor meant tina
u should be known till tho publication OF the boob
which win not DO sooner than September II Is
pity that It should be bruited abroad untimely
THE older grow the ! hate to write notes
ana trust have horo written nothing now tia
may mako IL necessary for me to w1to another.
Truly yours, N H."
THIS Ietter OF rare worth either literary or o
historical remnant he's now become matter Of mel
Chandse and WILL In few days, form the central fea
In the sale OF valuable collection Of autograph